Epiphany: Spindles in the fireplace to get the… gnomes

The Epiphany is a great annual christian celebration of the remembrance of the Baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan river by St. John the Baptist…
Customs is a lot per region of Greece.
From Christmas as the Lights are not a few owners in Western Fthiotida that keeping the custom put in the fireplace spindles to see the gnomes, and not to descend from the chimney.
The believers in the traditions, from Christmas eve until the Epiphany, leaving the gnomes, I don’t eat olives, beans and figs to do καλογήρους.
In the villages of western Fthiotida in the evening of the eve of the Epiphany large groups of boys and older men holding large bells in the hands, which were ringing constantly, roamed from house to house and sang the carols of Lights.
The householders of the village, the φίλευαν christmas dishes, which at the end of the evening was tasting all together in the taverns of the village singing and dancing.